Official 'Scust Thread of Non-Political News

[Human Snorenado]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/michael-seewald-defends-josh-duggar

Seewald spent most of the post giving a faith-based argument for why Duggar should be beyond reproach in the present day and at times seemed to characterize Duggar's "sins" as inevitable. While he said Duggar's alleged sex crimes were "reprehensible," Seewald argued it was improper to judge him for those offenses because he'd sought forgiveness over the years from both the alleged victims and Jesus Christ.

[benjipwns]

Everyone knows it's not illegal if the President does it Jesus Christ forgives it.

[Human Snorenado]

Keeps getting crazier/more disgusting every day. Now the state trooper (who is, it should be noted, serving like 50+ years for child porn) that gave Josh a stern talking to for his own molest-y activities says that Jim Bob only told him of ONE act of molestation.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/josh-duggar-joseph-hutchens-state-trooper

[Phoenix Dark]

Josh Duggar confessed to his father Jim Bob Duggar on THREE separate occasions to multiple acts of sexual molestation against his sisters and a family friend, according to a new police report obtained exclusively by In Touch magazine.

The document also makes clear that Josh was 15 years old when he molested his 5-year-old sister and committed at least SEVEN acts of sexual molestation.

The Washington County Sheriff’s document makes it clear that despite Josh’s chilling confessions the Duggars waited at least 16 months before contacting authorities about the molestations, even though the behavior was continuing and growing worse. During that period they did not get professional counseling for Josh or his victims. Legal experts tell In Touch that Jim Bob and Michelle could have faced six years in prison for their inaction, if the statute of limitations had not expired.

The report details that Josh went from sister to sister, stating, “Apparently all of the girls were sleeping in a common room at this time.”

As In Touch reports exclusively in its new issue, despite Josh’s confession, Jim Bob and Michelle did not get him – or their daughters -- counseling from a licensed mental health professional for at least 16 months. They have said the children did receive counseling but refuse to say if it was court ordered after the Families In Need of Services and the Arkansas Department of Human Services became involved in the Duggar case.

By the time police launched their investigation in 2006, the statute of limitations had expired and police turned the matter over to social services. The Duggars did eventually take Josh to a a state trooper Joseph Hutchens. But Hutchens, who is serving 56 years in prison, said in an interview from behind bars that Jim Bob and Josh told him about only one incident and that’s why he didn’t report it to the child abuse hotline. The new police report states only that Jim Bob said when they visited Hutchens Josh “had admitted to Cpl Hutchins (sic) what he had done.” The police did not independently verify that.

http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/josh-duggar-chilling-molestation-confession-in-new-police-report-59752

[Great Rumbler]

even though the behavior was continuing and growing worse

I could almost forgive this guy and his parents if it was a one-time thing and he was genuine about wanting to get better. But after reading that line? Nah. Those three can burn in the fires of eternal torment.

[Brehvolution]

[Yeti]

Jill and Jessa Duggar to Confirm to Megyn Kelly That Josh Molested Them

http://gawker.com/jill-and-jessa-duggar-to-confirm-to-megyn-kelly-that-jo-1708847485

Jessa’s father-in-law, Michael Seewald, wrote a lengthy blog post last month in support of the man who molested his son’s wife as a teen:

"In the end Josh sought forgiveness from those he wronged, repented of his sins, and came to trust Christ as his Savior. He has to the present day attested to the reality of his repentance and faith by living above reproach. In their efforts to salvage the wreckage that these transgressions brought, and bring healing to all involved, Jim Bob and Michelle are to be commended."

 


Also, someone needs to change the title of this thread to "The Dugger Buggery Megathread" because there isn't really any other news story begin discussed.

[Joe Molotov]

Waiting for Mike Huckabee with the "I wish I'd diddled my sisters and asked for forgiveness when I was a teenager, haha amirite guys?"

[Kara]

5. What the fuck.

[Rufus]

Adding this to the pile of things I'd like to un-know.

[Phoenix Dark]

Gotta think this is the death knell for their brand, at least mainstream wise. They'll clearly always be accepted within the Evangelical community but I think the days of getting People mag covers and having a show are gone.

BTW imagine if the abuse was flipped, and one of the girls had molested one of the boys. I guarantee you there would have been less forgiveness from Jim Bob and his wife - if there was any forgiveness at all.

[Phoenix Dark]

“He had gone in and just basically touched them over their clothes while they were sleeping. They didn’t even know he had done it,” Jim Bob said. Later Jim Bob admitted there “were a couple incidents where he touched them under their clothes, but it was like a few seconds.”

I kinda understand parents wanting to keep things in house the first time, and try to figure things out/talk to him/etc. But after the second time? At that point you have to go to a therapist. It's amazing how Kelly let them spin this BTW. Jim Bob made it sound like the only option was taking him to a juvenile facility, which obviously it's a great place for kids. What about a licensed therapist. A professional. Not some man who isn't licensed and is little more than a dude building a house.

[Kara]

http://m.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/06/08/i-could-have-died-too-says-driver-hit-by-shamed-girl-who-jumped-from-bridge/?tid=HP_more

I even found the sic. in the reprinting of a child's suicide note scust.

[Human Snorenado]

Penn State: official college of wtf is going on here

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/james-vivenzio-penn-state-fraternity-lawsuit

[benjipwns]

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/mike-huckabee-josh-duggar-megyn-kelly-interview-118772.html

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee continued to defend the Duggar family in an interview with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly on Monday night, attacking the media for its “exploitation” of the girls whom older brother Josh Duggar admitted to molesting when he was a teenager.

Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, where the Duggar family resides, said he was “stunned and shocked” that the girls were “exploited in this by the media for their own purposes.”

“There was no interest in the media to protect those girls. There was no interest to make sure that their interests were served. And I think your interview pointed out that they had a very different reaction to all of this than did their critics, who were out to destroy their family,” Huckabee told Kelly, referencing an earlier interview with family members on “The Kelly File.”

Reopening the issue in this public way violates state law, he said.

“Megyn, he is an unadjudicated minor at the time that this happened. You’re an attorney. You understand that a person is innocent until proven guilty,” Huckabee said.

“But he confessed,” Kelly responded.

“He was never adjudicated, but he did not confess in a court of law. The law does not hold him accountable, even if he confesses,” Huckabee said.

The bigger issue, he added, is that the girls were exploited by the “illegal, unlawful release” of the information surrounding their molestation.

“It was not about the victims. It was about trying to go after the Duggars. They have been known as a family that is a Christian family, and if a liberal has anything like this kind of situation, it’s no big deal,” Huckabee said, echoing Sarah Palin in his invocation of Lena Dunham, the liberal star of HBO’s “Girls,” who has said that, when she was 7 years old, she inappropriately touched her 1-year-old sister.

...

adding that he has not heard much about his support of the Duggars from people on the campaign trail.

“I never get a question about this unless it’s to say, ‘By the way, why is this such a big issue?’” he said.

[Great Rumbler]

“Megyn, he is an unadjudicated minor at the time that this happened. You’re an attorney. You understand that a person is innocent until proven guilty,” Huckabee said.

“But he confessed,” Kelly responded.

“He was never adjudicated, but he did not confess in a court of law. The law does not hold him accountable, even if he confesses,” Huckabee said.

Compare that to this:

Fox News host Megyn Kelly responded to the brutal video showing a teen girl being manhandled by a Texas police officer by commenting that "the girl was no saint either. He had told her to leave, and she continued to linger. And when the cop tells you to leave, get out."

Sean Hannity Claims That Officer In Texas Was Justified For Pulling A Gun Because Teens Could Have Come Up And "Hit Them With A Shank In The Back."

On Fox's Hannity, guest and former NYPD detective Bo Dietl claimed that the police officer in the case could have felt justifiably threatened because the teens might have told him, "I'm gonna pop a cap."

In a June 9 post to his Facebook page, Fox contributor Todd Starnes defended the officer's treatment of so-called "teenage thugs" and warned that media criticism of the police created "a slippery slope to anarchy"

[Brehvolution]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/09/pat-robertson-hitler-baby_n_7547442.html?utm_hp_ref=media

A woman writing to Robertson on his show "The 700 Club" asked for help comforting a co-worker grieving her 3-year-old's death. Robertson suggested Tuesday that the child's death was all part of God's plan to keep us safe from a future, evil dictator.

"As far as God’s concerned, He knows the end from the beginning and He sees a little baby and that little baby could grow up to be Adolf Hitler, he could grow up to be Joseph Stalin, he could grow up to be some serial killer, or he could grow up to die of a hideous disease," he said.

"God sees all of that, and for that life to be terminated while he’s a baby, he’s going to be with God forever in Heaven, so it isn’t a bad thing," the 85-year-old founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network continued, "So how could God do that? How could a good God let that happen? Well, the good God is going to take that baby to Heaven right now, and that's isn't a bad thing."

 

[Joe Molotov]

"At least now your baby won't grow up to be Hitler, Stalin, or gay. You dodged a bullet."

[Kara]

If you told me my dead son would have grown up to be Koba-kun, it would have made the grief that much worse.

[Van Cruncheon]

"At least now your baby won't grow up to be Hitler, Stalin, or gay unlike the times God let Hitler, Stalin, and gay people be born. You dodged a bullet."

fix'd this for pat

[Joe Molotov]

"At least now your baby won't grow up to be Hitler, Stalin, or gay unlike the times God let Hitler, Stalin, and gay people be born. You dodged a bullet."

fix'd this for pat

In the words of the prophets: Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me...can't get fooled again.

[brawndolicious]

Ehhh it sounds like he said that he basically falls in love with every woman he works with. Its lonely at the top.

[Phoenix Dark]

how many lab girl's hearts have you broken, Esch and Am Nintenho

[Brehvolution]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/co-author-of-mike-huckabee-books-was-accused-of-child-molest#.wknbP4Mva

  What's with these christian pedos?

[brawndolicious]

I mean I get that and all but it's not really convincing as an argument for segregated laboratories.

I meant that sounds like a kind of desperate and bitter dude.

[Joe Molotov]

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/10/nobel-scientist-tim-hunt-female-scientists-cause-trouble-for-men-in-labs

“Let me tell you about my trouble with girls … three things happen when they are in the lab … You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you and when you criticise them, they cry.”

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[brob]

https://twitter.com/KREMTaylor/status/609127133068181504

[Kara]

https://twitter.com/KREMTaylor/status/609127133068181504

[Phoenix Dark]

Country Singer Randy Howard Dead After Gunfight With Bounty Hunter
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/country-singer-randy-howard-dead-shot-by-bounty-hunter-report-2015116#ixzz3crtb5JlW

[studyguy]

It's a real sad state of affairs when the closest thing we have to a real life batman is Dog the Bounty hunter types making questionable arrests.

[Great Rumbler]

Country Singer Randy Howard Dead After Gunfight With Bounty Hunter
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/country-singer-randy-howard-dead-shot-by-bounty-hunter-report-2015116#ixzz3crtb5JlW

These white thugs are nothing but animals, makes me think that maybe we need to bring back segregation to keep them away from decent, law-abiding folks. #notaracist

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2015/06/8570075/gawker-fight-its-life-hulk-hogan-sex-tape-suit

 

The 'scust is for Gawker Media.  That shitshow needed to be flushed away yesterday. 

[Joe Molotov]

Whatchu gonna do when Hulkamania runs wild on you, Gawker?

[Phoenix Dark]

Family Values Activist Josh Duggar Had a Paid Ashley Madison Account

But data released online in the wake of the hack on Ashley Madison’s servers certainly seems to show otherwise. Someone using a credit card belonging to a Joshua J. Duggar, with a billing address that matches the home in Fayetteville, Arkansas owned by his grandmother Mary—a home that was consistently shown on their now-cancelled TV show, and in which Anna Duggar gave birth to her first child—paid a total of $986.76 for two different monthly Ashley Madison subscriptions from February of 2013 until May of 2015.

According to the data, Josh Duggar was paying Ashley Madison in order to find an extramarital partner for the following acts:

    “Conventional Sex,” Experimenting with Sex Toys,” One-Night Stands,” “Open to Experimentation,” “Gentleness,” “Good With Your Hands,” Sensual Massage,” “Extended Foreplay/Teasing,” “Bubble Bath for 2,” “Likes to Give Oral Sex,” “Likes to Receive Oral Sex,” “Someone I Can Teach,” “Someone Who Can Teach Me,” “Kissing,” “Cuddling & Hugging,” “Sharing Fantasies,” “Sex Talk.”

“A Professional/Well Groomed,” “Stylish/Classy,” “Casual Jeans/T-shirt Type,” “Muscular/Fit Body,” ”Petite Figure,” “Tall Height,” “Short Height,” “Long Hair,””Short Hair,” “Girl Next Door,” “Naughty Girl,” “Sense of Humor,” “Imagination,” “Creative and Adventurous,” “Relaxed and Easy Going,” “Aggressive/Take Charge Nature,” “Confidence,” “Discretion/Secrecy,” “A Good Listener,” “Good Personal Hygiene,” “Average Sex Drive,” “High Sex Drive,” “Dislikes Routine,” “Has a Secret Love Nest,” “Disease Free,” “Drug Free,” and “Natural Breasts.”

[thisismyusername]

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I was just coming to post this. The irony.

[Joe Molotov]

"Sister"

[Brehvolution]

A family that prays together, shares their AM account together.

[Phoenix Dark]

It's amazing how closely Duggar's fall mirrors many of the hardcore Christians I know (outside of pedo shit of course). This is the product of being completely sheltered, brehs. I know a guy whose mom would literally walk down the magazine aisle at the grocery store and turn all the mags with women on the cover over. I remember when half the varsity team at the Baptist school I played for got 100 demerits for playing a quick girls v boys basketball game. I could go on and on. Most of those dudes are either no longer religious or had a really ugly burnout period before returning to the lord.

[Joe Molotov]

It was the internet porn what done him in!

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/josh-duggar-admits-to-porn-addiction-and-being-unfaithful-to-wife-i-have-been-the-biggest-hypocrite-ever/

I have been the biggest hypocrite ever. While espousing faith and family values, I have secretly over the last several years been viewing pornography on the internet and this became a secret addiction and I became unfaithful to my wife.

I am so ashamed of the double life that I have been living and am grieved for the hurt, pain and disgrace my sin has caused my wife and family, and most of all Jesus and all those who profess faith in Him.

I brought hurt and a reproach to my family, close friends and the fans of our show with my actions that happened when I was 14-15 years old, and now I have re-broken their trust.

The last few years, while publicly stating I was fighting against immorality in our country, I was hiding my own personal failings.

As I am learning the hard way, we have the freedom to choose to our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences. I deeply regret all hurt I have caused so many by being such a bad example.

I humbly ask for your forgiveness. Please pray for my precious wife Anna and our family during this time.

Josh Duggar

Or not!

http://www.duggarfamily.com/2015/8/statements-from-jim-bob-and-michelle-duggar-and-josh-duggar

I have been the biggest hypocrite ever. While espousing faith and family values, I have been unfaithful to my wife.

I am so ashamed of the double life that I have been living and am grieved for the hurt, pain and disgrace my sin has caused my wife and family, and most of all Jesus and all those who profess faith in Him.

I have brought hurt and a reproach to my family, close friends and the fans of our show with my actions.

The last few years, while publicly stating I was fighting against immorality in our country I was hiding my own personal failures.

As I am learning the hard way, we have the freedom to choose our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences. I deeply regret all the hurt I have caused so many by being such a bad example.

I humbly ask for your forgiveness. Please pray for my precious wife Anna and our family during this time.

Josh Duggar

He updated his apology to remove the porny bits Maybe he's taking responsibility instead of blaming porn. Maybe he feels like he might need to deny looking at porn during the divorce hearings, who knows!

[Phoenix Dark]

Maybe he just meant he looked at some Father Mike posts in the nsfw thread.

[Joe Molotov]

Also excised from the final(?) draft:

The last few years, while publicly stating I was fighting against immorality in our country, in my heart I had allowed Satan to build a fortress that no one knew about.

Satan Fortress would be a rad black metal band.

[Phoenix Dark]

"viewing pornography on the internet" sounds a lot like "smoking marijuana like a cigarette" 

[Joe Molotov]

"viewing pornography on the internet" sounds a lot like "smoking marijuana like a cigarette" 

14 y/o Josh Duggar, at a Friend's house: "OMG bro, look at this magazine I found in the basement behind your dad's tools!"

Friend: "Haha, oh man, it's a Playboy from May 1972. That's funny."

Josh: "I mean...I know it's wrong for us to look at it...but you know...maybe we can just take a little peak?"

Friend: "Why, they didn't even show muff back then? Let's get on my computer and look up Brazzer vids on the Internet."

Josh: "...I didn't understand any of those words."

[ToxicAdam]

The Josh Duggar behavior makes you wonder how sordid it can get in the Amish community.

I'll never buy Amish-grown chicken again ...

[Kara]

Don't they make you live among the gentiles as an adult so that you're sure you want to be Amish? I respect them a helluva lot more than the theocratic blowhard evangelicals like this sorry lot.

[ToxicAdam]

The Amish are great. I have worked with them and have had them work for me (mostly structural framing work). I was just going for the joke.

[Joe Molotov]

They make good furniture and canned jellies. The Duggars only make babbies. 

[thisismyusername]

He updated his apology to remove the porny bits Maybe he's taking responsibility instead of blaming porn. Maybe he feels like he might need to deny looking at porn during the divorce hearings, who knows!

You forgot the pedo bit, but I guess that counts under "porny?"

The last few years, while publicly stating I was fighting against immorality in our country, in my heart I had allowed Satan to build a fortress that no one knew about.

Satan Fortress would be a rad black metal band.

Eh, I'll wait for Satan Fortress 2 from Volvo. Now with more Horns.